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ALBUMDer Freischütz, Op. 77, J. 277: Was gleicht wohl auf Erden (Live) - SingleBavarian Radio Chorus, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons
Albums by Mariss Jansons
ALBUMFranck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48Mariss Jansons & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ALBUMBruckner: Symphony No. 6Mariss Jansons & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ALBUMTchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5Mariss Jansons & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ALBUMR. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra & MetamorphosenMariss Jansons & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ALBUMDebussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Nocturnes & ImagesNetherlands Chamber Choir, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Kersten McCall & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ALBUMDirigenten bei der Probe: Mariss Jansons probt Mahler Symphonie Nr. 5Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Carsten Fabian, Bernhard Neuhoff, Hannah Weiss & Friedrich Schloffer
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (Rehearsal Excerpts)Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons
ALBUMR. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 (Rehearsal Excerpts)Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons & Friedrich Schloffer
ALBUMBruckner: Symphony No. 6Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
ALBUMRichard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20, TrV 156 (Rehearsal Excerpts)Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons & Friedrich Schloffer
Mariss Jansons's Popular Music Videos
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42, TH. 116: III. Mélodie (Live from Waldbühne, Berlin / 2002)
Vadim Repin, Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: III. Allegretto grazioso (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99: I. Nocturne. Moderato (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Hilary Hahn, Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
8 Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, B. 147: No. 7 in C Major (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Oberon, J. 306: Overture (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99: II. Scherzo. Allegro (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Hilary Hahn, Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99: III. Passacaglia. Andante (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Hilary Hahn, Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (Ed. Nowak): III. Scherzo. Nicht schnell – Trio. Langsam – Scherzo da capo (Live)
Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99: IV. Burlesca. Allegro con brio (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Hilary Hahn, Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: I. Allegro con brio (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo / 2000)
Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
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This Latvian conductor stirred up intense emotions with his baton.
Artist Biography
Always measured and dignified on the podium, the conductor Mariss Jansons managed to combine intensity with a superb feeling for the formal and dramatic shape of a work. Born in Riga in 1943, in the midst of the Nazi occupation (his mother gave birth while in hiding), he went with his father, the conductor Arvids Jansons, to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) when he was 13. There he was taken up by the legendary conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky—not always the most generous of men when it came to other conductors. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory. When the conductor Herbert von Karajan visited the USSR in 1968, he was so impressed with Jansons that he invited him to study with him in Berlin, but the Soviet authorities intervened to prevent it. Jansons went on to direct the Oslo Philharmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to great international acclaim—his numerous recordings, especially of Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich, were warmly received throughout the world and won him numerous awards. After a severe heart attack in 1996, Jansons gave up long-haul flights and concentrated his work in Europe, directing first the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, then the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Though his health problems were well known, his death in St. Petersburg in 2019 came as a shock to many.
Hometown
Riga, Latvia
Genre
Classical